Khachapuri

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Khachapuri is a Georgian restaurant in San Diego's University Heights at 4505 Park Blvd, opened in 2025 by the team behind Kafe Sobaka. The menu is built around the namesake dish—khachapuri—a category of Georgian cheese breads prepared in multiple regional styles. The Adjaruli version arrives as a boat-shaped bread filled with molten sulguni cheese and topped with a raw egg and a pat of butter that guests stir into the filling at the table, while the Imeruli style is pan-fried and stuffed with a blend of cheese and herbs pressed flat into a golden crust. The late-night coffee program at Lestat's on Park two blocks south on the same boulevard extends the evening for diners who finish here and want to stay on Park Blvd. Beyond the bread program, the kitchen produces khinkali—twisted soup dumplings pinched shut at the top and eaten by hand—alongside rotating weekly soups, meat pies, and a corn bread studded with chunks of cheese. Georgian cuisine occupies a culinary niche distinct from the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurants University Heights clusters along Park Blvd and El Cajon Blvd—the spice profile leans on blue fenugreek, dried marigold, and adjika pepper paste rather than the za'atar and sumac common to Levantine kitchens. Park Blvd runs north-south through University Heights and connects directly to Balboa Park, making the 92116 corridor a natural post-park dinner stop. Diversionary Theatre on Park Blvd in University Heights anchors the neighborhood's performing arts scene two blocks north, and dinner-and-a-show pairings bring theater crowds into the Park Blvd dining cluster that includes Wormwood and its absinthe-focused cocktail menu. The restaurant's tongue-in-cheek branding carries through a menu written in both English and transliterated Georgian, and descriptions encourage first-timers to order the Adjaruli khachapuri as an entry point. The weekly rotating soup draws from Georgia's dumpling-broth tradition—a rich, spiced beef or vegan base ladled over torn bread and fresh herbs in a style that has no direct parallel on San Diego menus.